Sumner Pit And Plant has $25K in proposed MSHA penalties and $453 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2020–2025
Latest incident
Jul 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2010
74
citations
12
significant & substantial
$24,638
proposed penalties
$22,605
paid to date
92% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,033 gap.
citations per 100 inspection hours
ⓘThis rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 592 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Sumner Pit And Plant has $25K in proposed MSHA penalties and $453 outstanding across 1 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
ⓘDifferences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$25K
proposed penalties
$23K
current assessed
$23K
paid to date
$453
outstanding
71 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $8K in penalties contested before the Commission, $6K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-16.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘShares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘContesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
17citations taken to the federal commission · 23% of citations on record
Settled
15 · 88%
Vacated or withdrawn
2 · 12%
43%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘCounts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 7 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
28%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$8K proposed, $6K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2022-05-01.
Contested penalties
ⓘA reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Health sampling
ⓘA sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.
Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘMany samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2024-06-06
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
6
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg5
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (6)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2024-06-06
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Bulldozer Operator
2024-06-06
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2024-06-06
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.43
0.83
0.52
Laborer, Bullgang
2019-04-23
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2015-07-01
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2015-07-01
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Sumner Pit And Plant recorded 5.70 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
5.70
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Washington, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.92 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2025 *
5.70
0.00
0.000
2024 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2023 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2022 *
5.76
5.76
0.000
2021 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2020 *
7.21
7.21
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
15
2025
15
2024
19
2023
19
2022
16
2021
15
2020
13
2019
8
2018
7
2017
5
2016
5
2015
7
2012
0
2011
0
2010
2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Sumner Pit And Plant sits in Pierce County, Washington, where the Census mining category is 0.1% of county employment.
Local economic context
ⓘCounty figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Pierce County, Washington · Population 924,106
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$96,632
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
ⓘCitations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2026 Q2
7,913
2
0
252.7
2026 Q1
8,807
0
0
0.0
2025 Q4
8,769
7
1
798.3
2025 Q3
7,970
1
0
125.5
2025 Q2
8,527
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
9,798
1
0
102.1
2024 Q4
8,239
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
8,651
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
11,494
3
0
261.0
2024 Q1
10,473
2
0
191.0
2023 Q4
9,652
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
10,809
1
0
92.5
2023 Q2
10,089
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
10,016
0
0
0.0
2022 Q4
8,501
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
8,846
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
8,249
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
9,146
32
9
3498.8
2021 Q4
9,892
0
0
0.0
2021 Q3
8,685
1
0
115.1
2021 Q2
5,981
0
0
0.0
2021 Q1
7,916
1
0
126.3
2020 Q4
7,913
0
0
0.0
2020 Q3
8,787
4
1
455.2
2020 Q2
5,800
0
0
0.0
2020 Q1
5,253
0
0
0.0
2019 Q4
5,248
3
0
571.6
2019 Q3
5,129
0
0
0.0
2019 Q2
5,404
5
0
925.2
2019 Q1
1,687
0
0
0.0
2018 Q4
4,283
1
0
233.5
2018 Q3
4,928
1
0
202.9
2018 Q2
3,787
0
0
0.0
2018 Q1
2,278
2
1
878.0
2017 Q4
2,325
0
0
0.0
2017 Q3
2,972
0
0
0.0
2017 Q2
2,570
1
0
389.1
2017 Q1
2,490
0
0
0.0
2016 Q4
2,008
0
0
0.0
2016 Q3
3,896
0
0
0.0
2016 Q2
2,225
0
0
0.0
2016 Q1
2,175
0
0
0.0
2015 Q4
3,578
0
0
0.0
2015 Q3
3,888
0
0
0.0
2015 Q2
5,465
1
0
183.0
2015 Q1
3,020
0
0
0.0
2012 Q4
0
0
0
2012 Q3
0
0
0
2012 Q2
0
0
0
2012 Q1
0
0
0
2011 Q4
0
0
0
2011 Q3
0
0
0
2011 Q1
0
0
0
2010 Q4
250
3
0
12000.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
3 on file
2025 · 1 incident
July 14, 2025WA · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorPOWERED HAULAGE
Operator was hauling mud in a 980H loader when EE hit a bump in the haul road and received a possible pinched nerve in EE's neck. EE is seeing a physical therapist for pain relief. No time lost, no light duty restrictions, still working job of injury.
2022 · 1 incident
January 25, 2022WA · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON